January 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1968 WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Jan 1968 Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
• 04 Jan 1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
• 05 Jan 1968 Alexander Dubcek comes to power: ''Prague Spring'' begins in Czechoslovakia.
• 06 Jan 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon.
• 07 Jan 1968 GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV
• 08 Jan 1968 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.ref name=quotWilson after-dinner speechquotJohn Chartres, quotWilson Joins 'I Back Britain'quot, ''The Times'', 9 January 1968, p. 1.
• 09 Jan 1968 US Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon.
• 10 Jan 1968 Great Balls of Fire reaches #1
• 11 Jan 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit
• 12 Jan 1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
• 13 Jan 1968 Hallelujah, Baby! closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 performances
• 14 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 launched
• 15 Jan 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
• 16 Jan 1968 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars 4-3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 17 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
• 18 Jan 1968 Happy Time opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
• 19 Jan 1968 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
• 20 Jan 1968 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
• 21 Jan 1968 US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland.
• 22 Jan 1968 Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• 23 Jan 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.
• 25 Jan 1968 Risse St. in Bronx named
• 26 Jan 1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
• 27 Jan 1968 Darling of the Day opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 performances
• 28 Jan 1968 Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
• 29 Jan 1968 Nauru adopts constitution.
• 30 Jan 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, Honey
• 31 Jan 1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR.

Famous Birthday

• Mathilde Seigner

  French actress, Emmanuelle'sister.

• Felipe VI of Spain
• LL Cool J

  American rapper and actor.

• Mike Patton

  Metal Singer.

• Sarah McLachlan

  Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist.

• Laly Meignan
• Heather Mills

  Activist.

• Cuba Gooding Jr
• Melissa Rivers

  American actress, television host and producer.

• Franck Leboeuf
• Mary Lou Retton
• Edward Burns

  American actor.

• Lyle Menendez

  American homicide; the son of a wealthy video distributor with one younger brother, Erik.

• Chad Lowe

  American actor, director and noted family.

• Joey Lauren Adams

  American actress.

• Rachael Harris

  American actress.

• Joey Stefano

  American male prostitute and porno actor who starred in more than 50 videos of gay and bisexual pornography and modeled in Madonna's "Sex"...

• Rakim (rapper)
• Aglaia Szyszkowitz
• Guy Fieri

  Businessman.

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Famous Deaths

• Julis Deutsch

  Austria politician / General of the Spanish Republican Army, dies at 83.

• Kokichi Tsuburaya

  Japanese marathoner (1964 Olympics - Bronze Medalist), commits suicide.

• Josue Teofilo Wilkes

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Virginia Maskell

  Actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31.

• John Ridgely

  Actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58.

• Basil Sydney

  Actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73.

• Sanoesi Pane

  Indonesian writer, dies.

• Joseph Pholien

  Belgian Prime Minister (1950-52), communist fighter, dies at age 83.

• Kurt Baschwitz

  German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at age 81.

• Leopold Infeld

  Polish nuclear physicist (Motion and Relativity), dies at age 69.

• Robert R "Bob" Jones

  founder (Bob Jones University), dies at age 84.

• Duke Kahanamoku of Hawaii

  100m swimmer (Olympics-gold-1912, 1920, 1924), dies at age 77.

• Tsugouharu T Foujita

  Japanese/French painter, dies at age 81.

• Prof James Smith

  South African ichthyologist (Born 1897).

• Moshe Zvi Segal

  Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (Born 1876).

• Bob Jones

  Sr, American evangelist (Born 1883).

• Dorothea Mackellar

  Australian poet whose stanza "I love a sunburnt country" is one of Australia's best-known pieces of lyric verse, taken from "My Country,"...

• Ray Harroun

  American race car driver and engineer (d. 1968).

• Howard Smith

  Actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74.

• Gholamreza Takhti

  Iranian wrestler and politician (d. 1968).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
2. John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
3. The Monkees - Daydream Believer
4. Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools
5. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Scaffold - Lily The Pink
2. The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
3. Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
4. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (EP)
5. Georgie Fame - Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde